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"First fully approved ‘off the shelf’ stem cells launch in Japan"

  • 10-02-2016 5:54pm
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    the_syco
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    First fully approved ‘off the shelf’ stem cells launch in Japan
    Until now, stem cell therapy has mainly been used in unregulated private clinics or as an experimental treatment in clinical trials (see “The dangerous allure of stem cells“). A handful of treatments have been approved, but these involve injecting someone with stem cells generated from their own cells – a process that can take weeks and doesn’t always work. The stem cells in Temcell, by contrast, come from healthy donors and can be multiplied to produce billions of standardised cells.

    Developed by a company called Mesoblast in Melbourne, Australia, Temcell will be sold in Japan by JCR Pharmaceuticals
    This sounds awesome. I'm guessing this means that organ donation will become easier?


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  • #2
    Vorsprung
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    the_syco wrote: »
    First fully approved ‘off the shelf’ stem cells launch in Japan

    This sounds awesome. I'm guessing this means that organ donation will become easier?

    Would it even become obsolete? Why wait for a donor when you can grow an organ to order. Really interesting stuff.


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    challengemaster
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    the_syco wrote: »

    This sounds awesome. I'm guessing this means that organ donation will become easier?
    Vorsprung wrote: »
    Would it even become obsolete? Why wait for a donor when you can grow an organ to order. Really interesting stuff.

    Nope. Nothing to do with organ donation and whole organ culture isn't even in the same galaxy as this. Entirely unrelated things tbh.

    For a science website, there's an awful lot of marketing faff and some just pure nonsense in there, so much so it reads like a paid advertisement. The person who wrote that was not a stem cell scientist. There's quite a few factually incorrect statements in that.
    Stem cells from a donor can be cheaply manufactured in large batches, and supplied off the shelf using a business model much more like that for typical drugs, says Natalie Mount of the UK Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, which helps guide stem cell trials.
    Reimbursement for TEMCELL has been authorized by NHI at ¥868,680 (A$9,767 / US$7,079) per bag of 72 million cells. In Japan, the average adult patient is expected to receive 16 or up to 24 bags of 72 million cells. On this basis, Mesoblast expects a treatment course of TEMCELL in an adult Japanese patient to be reimbursed at ¥13,898,880 (A$156,000 / US$113,000) or up to ¥20,848,320 (A$234,000 / US$170,000).
    To ensure the quality of TEMCELL ® HS Inj ., distribution and storage at ultra-low temperature is essential. JCR has developed jointly with Medipal Holdings , Inc. a liquid nitrogen based ultra-low cold chain system. Utilizing this system, we are constructing the framework to ensure stable quality and on-time delivery of TEMCELL ® HS Inj . to the clinical site even at emergency situations.

    "off the shelf" and "cheaply".... hmm...


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